By Sandun A Jayasekera
The South Asian Institute of Technology and Management (SAITM) also known as the Malabe Private Medical Faculty has not been granted permission to teach medical science or any related subject but seven other subjects connected to trade and business, the Daily Mirror understands.
SAITM, which had been registered as a BOI project on March 31 2008 has been permitted to teach only seven subjects – Information Technology, Management and Finance, Engineering, Vocational Studies, Nursing, Languages and Health Science.
In a letter to Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) President Lalitha Mendis, the BOI said that based on an application by Dr. Neville Fernando Investment Company (PVT) Ltd. for approval for a Higher Education Institute with an investment of US$5 million had permitted SAITM to only teach the mentioned subjects.
With regard to health science, the BOI said approval was being granted on condition that the Health and Nutrition Ministry permission would be obtained prior to providing training in this subject.
Meanwhile, responding to GMOA Secretary Chandika Epitakaduwa, Prof. Mendis said three SLMC members, after a preliminary inspection on an invitation by the SAITM, had recommended that degree conferring status be not awarded to SAITM.
“No SLMC member has affirmed or recommended a degree awarding status to SAITM as gazetted,” she said insinuating that the gazette notification issued by Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayaka on August 30 granting medical degree awarding status to SAITM was not in accordance with the law.
In another letter sent by former SLMC President H.H.R. Samarasinghe to SAITM President Neville Fernando on May 28, 2009 in response to a request to recognize the four years of study for Medical Degree at Russia’s Nizhny Novogorod State Academy of Medicine, to which SAITM is affiliated says that the Medical Council had recognized the degree awarded by Nizhny Novogorod State Medical Academy of Russia, for the six-year study course conducted in Russia.
It further stresses that the SLMC has not recognized any other programme conducted in Sri Lanka or elsewhere by the Nizhny Novogorod State Medical Academy in Russia. However, SAITM Director Dr. Dhammika Perera told Daily Mirror the BOI had granted the degree awarding status to SAITM on February 25, 2009 and the allegations leveled against it were false and bias (Dailymirror)
The South Asian Institute of Technology and Management (SAITM) also known as the Malabe Private Medical Faculty has not been granted permission to teach medical science or any related subject but seven other subjects connected to trade and business, the Daily Mirror understands.
SAITM, which had been registered as a BOI project on March 31 2008 has been permitted to teach only seven subjects – Information Technology, Management and Finance, Engineering, Vocational Studies, Nursing, Languages and Health Science.
In a letter to Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) President Lalitha Mendis, the BOI said that based on an application by Dr. Neville Fernando Investment Company (PVT) Ltd. for approval for a Higher Education Institute with an investment of US$5 million had permitted SAITM to only teach the mentioned subjects.
With regard to health science, the BOI said approval was being granted on condition that the Health and Nutrition Ministry permission would be obtained prior to providing training in this subject.
Meanwhile, responding to GMOA Secretary Chandika Epitakaduwa, Prof. Mendis said three SLMC members, after a preliminary inspection on an invitation by the SAITM, had recommended that degree conferring status be not awarded to SAITM.
“No SLMC member has affirmed or recommended a degree awarding status to SAITM as gazetted,” she said insinuating that the gazette notification issued by Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayaka on August 30 granting medical degree awarding status to SAITM was not in accordance with the law.
In another letter sent by former SLMC President H.H.R. Samarasinghe to SAITM President Neville Fernando on May 28, 2009 in response to a request to recognize the four years of study for Medical Degree at Russia’s Nizhny Novogorod State Academy of Medicine, to which SAITM is affiliated says that the Medical Council had recognized the degree awarded by Nizhny Novogorod State Medical Academy of Russia, for the six-year study course conducted in Russia.
It further stresses that the SLMC has not recognized any other programme conducted in Sri Lanka or elsewhere by the Nizhny Novogorod State Medical Academy in Russia. However, SAITM Director Dr. Dhammika Perera told Daily Mirror the BOI had granted the degree awarding status to SAITM on February 25, 2009 and the allegations leveled against it were false and bias (Dailymirror)
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